re: Your top 5 Nirvana songs

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I would put Nirvana way above any of those.

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It's all about personal taste, but I agree with you... Mudhoney is the only one that comes close in that era of Seattle... maybe the Posies, but they were power pop.. Love Battery was underrated

Possibly Young Fresh Fellows, too.. but they were much further along in their career..

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I never understood why Mudhoney didn't get as big as the others.

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I do.. in the sense that, I don't think their songs were as radio friendly as some of the others... but they were so much better IMO

Something in the Way
Territorial Pissings
Polly
Pennyroyal Tea
Where Did you Sleep (live)

I'm a Mudhoney guy, but I've got no problem with Nirvana being the band that became the breakout act. They summed up the Sub Pop thing pretty well, though I do think Mark Lanegan was the better frontman, and the Screaming Trees, in an alternate universe, were the band that conquered the mainstream.

I like Alice in Cahins a lot, but you can definitely see how they were influenced by the local scene and not vice versa with their transition from Facelift to Sap to Dirt. Without the other grunge bands, AiC probably spends their career playing in the hair metal sandbox.

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I never understood why Mudhoney didn't get as big as the others.

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Because they were too punk rock. I mean, Nirvana has some punk influence, but Cobain really had some outstanding pop instincts. He wrote great hooks. He wrote punk songs disguised as pop songs, and later, the opposite.

Also, Mudhoney broke first, to a much smaller audience. They broke when "breaking" for an indie band meant selling a few thousand copies. They forged the path, for other bands to use, which is what often happens to the first adopters.

But mainly, Mudhoney went out of their way to sabotage their success, in often hysterical ways. They were offered a chance to record a new song for the Singles soundtrack, they recorded "Overblown". They got signed to a major label, and they changed their sound and removed the distortion and added keyboards. They were the band they truly did not give a shite and openly mocked the whole rock star thing (which is why they never broke, had a modest career, and are all still alive and putting out albums today).

Cobain talked about not being mainstream, but his instincts took him there. Which is perfectly valid. Mark Arm and Steve Turner seems to make every decision to reject mainstream success. Hell, the formation of their band is all about rejecting label success and doing stuff for their friends (short version - Green River broke up over whether to try and have a major label career: half formed Pearl Jam and the other half formed Mudhoney, you can guess who was om each side).

But yeah, Superfuzz Bigmuff is the single greatest thing to come out of the Seattle scene, and I don't think it's close (worded to exclude Hendrix).

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Plateau
Lake of Fire
Where Did You Sleep last Night
In Bloom
The Man Who Sold the World

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See, this is one of the reasons I continue to claim overrated. A top 5 that includes 3 covers. Oh, and I would probably include those songs in my top 5 as well.

drain you then into lounge act
aneurysm
sliver
school

too many honorable mentions.

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See, this is one of the reasons I continue to claim overrated. A top 5 that includes 3 covers. Oh, and I would probably include those songs in my top 5 as well.

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Then you should probably start listening to the Meat Puppets, who are awesome. Heck, both Meat Puppets songs are from the same album.

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AiC
Soundgarden

Pearl Jam





Nirvana

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I'd put Screaming Trees right behind Soundgarden.

I'm surprised at the amount of times About a Girl is listed. I was never huge on this one.